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The fireworks display at Burj Khalifa on New Year's Eve last year Twitter to live stream Dubai’s New Year fireworks Emaar Properties and Twitter partnering to live stream most-awaited pyrotechnics display in Dubai to a global audience DUBAI: Get ready to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks extravaganza in Dubai as a live stream on Saturday night. Emaar Properties and Twitter announced on Friday that they are partnering to live stream the most-awaited pyrotechnics display in Dubai to a global Twitter audience. This is the first live streaming deal Twitter has announced with a partner based in the MENA region. The live show will air on New Year’s Eve, from Downtown Dubai at 11.30pm and will be available worldwide to Twitter’s logged-in and logged-out audience on Twitter and connected devices. A series of fireworks crescendos will extend across the 500-acre Downtown Dubai and can be viewed from key locations across the city. Choreographed to a customised soundtrack, the pyrotechnics display will bring to life several milestone moments and artistic interpretations in fireworks of a falcon flying high, swirling comets, and Arabian dance forms. In specialised red and white comet shows and LED shows, the pyrotechnics will be displayed from Burj Khalifa, Dubai Opera and various landmarks. The finale of the event will feature a display in pyrotechnics celebrating Dubai’s current and future icons. Ahmad Al Matroushi, managing director of Emaar Properties, said: “The first-of-its-kind live streaming partnership with Twitter for the much-awaited New Year’s Eve Gala in Dubai will offer audiences across the world a real-time experience of the spectacle. It marks Emaar’s ongoing digital strategy to make emotional connections with the people and engage them through the potential of social media. The New Year’s Eve celebrations by Emaar is a tribute to the positive spirit of our city, and the live streaming will define it further as a true global celebration from Dubai.” “We are excited to announce our first live streaming partner event in the Middle East and North Africa region,” said Kinda Ebrahim, director of Media Partnerships, Middle East & North Africa, Twitter. “Live streaming the firework displays, combined with the live conversation on Twitter, will allow people across the world to view and Tweet about the festivities as they happen, creating a truly global celebration.” The stream will be available globally at DubaiNYE.twitter.com and on @MyDowntownDubai. You can join the conversation with the hashtag #MyDubaiNewYear. Dubai rings in 2017 with a dazzling display of fireworks The spectacular display lasted 8 minutes, shooting off from 23 locations in Downtown Dubai, with Burj Khalifa at its centre Dubai ushered in 2017 with a spectacular display of fireworks in Down Town Dubai with Burj Khalifa at its centre. Here's the coverage of the New Year Eve events in Dubai as it happened. 12.10am A dazzling display of fireworks lit up the Dubai skyline to ring in 2017. The spectacular display lasted 8 minutes, shooting off from 23 locations in Downtown Dubai, with Burj Khalifa at its centre. Thousands of people, including children, women and old waited for hours around Downtown to enjoy the spectacle. 11.50pm Fireworks just minutes away With just five minutes left to go, there is little more than standing room on Jumeirah Beach. Some get a better view. 11.45pm Just 15 minutes to go and the Downtown has brightened up with more colour, lights and sounds. People from all walks of life and all nationalities are here, waiting for the the lights to go off and the skies to lighten up. Crowd on their feet as we enter the last 15 minutes before the countdown for one of the biggest New Year celebrations in the world. 11.40pm Dubai rings in 2017 with a dazzling display of fireworks The spectacular display lasted 8 minutes, shooting off from 23 locations in Downtown Dubai, with Burj Khalifa at its centre Fireworks display at Burj Khalifa lit up the night sky welcoming the year 2017, in Dubai.Image Credit: Viendra Saklani/Gulf News Fireworks near the iconic Burj Al Arab in Jumeirah, DubaiImage Credit: Paul Crompton/Gulf News Fireworks display at Burj Khalifa lit up the Dubai skyline welcoming the year 2017Image Credit: Atiq ur Rehman/Gulf News Fireworks near the iconic Burj Al Arab in Jumeirah, DubaiImage Credit: Paul Cromption/Gulf News Fireworks from Burj Khalifa lit up the night sky welcoming the year 2017, in DubaiImage Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News Huge crowd at the MBR Boulevard, Downtown DubaiImage Credit: Shafaat/Gulf News Image Credit: Paul Crompton/Gulf News Residents at MBR BoulevardImage Credit: Shafaat Shahbandari/Gulf News Residents of Dubai wait to ring in the New Year by watching fireworks at the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. Image Credit: Zarina Fernandes/ Gulf News